26 Quotes by Eliza Cook

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man.

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare / To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?

Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of truth.

No gold glitters like that which is our own.

Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.

Christianity is the oxygen of the moral world.

Cruelty constitutes the greatest moral distance at which an intelligent creature can be removed from a God of forbearance and mercy.

The minds of scholars are libraries; those of antiquaries, lumber-rooms; those of sportsmen, kennels; those of epicures, larders and cellars.